Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...male-female ratio that President Bok announced two years ago has resulted in an increase of about 300 students. The new dorm, which will be called Canaday Hall after Ward M. Canaday '07, the Toledo, Ohio oil magnate who donated the $3 million building fee, will lessen the crowded housing conditions in the Yard and the Houses...
Both buildings have aroused a tremendous amount of concern about the sacrosanct architectural environment of the Yard. In both cases, release of the building plans was delayed--the new dorm will start to go up over the summer even though its design has not yet been made public--because of a series of last-minute reviews of details...
...CHUL decided in March to convert Claverly to an all-freshmen dorm...
...decrease--1.18 to 1-- in the number of women at the 'Cliffe. In return for that concession, the Harvard CHUL members agreed to absorb 82 spaces from Radcliffe and also to convert 100 places at Radcliffe usually held by freshmen into upperclass rooms by converting Claverly into a freshman dorm...
This is indeed what Harvard has done: it has committed itself to increasing by 300 the size of the College without adequately preparing for the effects of the influx of additional undergraduates. The new dorm will compensate for some of the increase but not all. Plans for construction at Radcliffe or a 65-70 student addition to Kirkland House are meaningless until Harvard or Radcliffe receive sufficient funding to complete the construction...